Learn Bird Watching vs Covey Call
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Learn Bird Watching
Learn to identify birds by sound and sight with a game-based system. This app offers audio and visual courses created by experts to improve your birding skills, suitable for beginners and advanced enthusiasts alike.
- Game-based learning system
- Identify birds by sound
- Identify birds by sight
- Expert-created courses
- Suitable for all skill levels
- Master birding by ear
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BIRDS OF NORTH AMERICA Learn birds the fun way! Learn to identify the birds that you're seeing and hearing. Take birding and birdwatching to a new level! Larkwire is a complete, game-based system for learning. Great for beginners and still challenging for advanced birders. Audio courses teach you to identify bird sounds and visual courses teach plumage. All courses are created by world class experts in field identification. This is the app used by professionals to master birding by ear. ***** "Best thing I’ve ever bought on the App Store." (Shopetastic review, 04/16/2020) ***** "Uniformly excellent" (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) ***** "A Rosetta Stone for birdsong." (Birding Magazine) ***** "This is a really cool tool!" (BirdChick) ***** "Really fun!" (Wildlife South) ********************************************** "Larkwire is already helping immensely with my ability to bird in the field. And my 7-year-old daughter is asking for 'that bird song game on the computer.'—I guess you have THREE of us hooked!" (Courtenay Schurman, Mountaineering Trainer) ********************************************** ********************************************** "It's like having a personal teacher who can pinpoint my weaknesses and make me work on them as I play. By far the best value for your money when you think about buying an avian audio guide." (Alain Clavette, aka @Acadian_Birder) ********************************************** ********************************************** "A fantastic tool for learning and reviewing birdsong. ... What I can vouch for, as a teacher, is the solid learning theory behind the software—this program is sure to improve the speed and accuracy with which you identify birds by ear." (David Pugh, Calgary Birder) ********************************************** SUPPORT For questions or support, email: support@larkwire.com EULA - Apple standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Covey Call
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Covey Call was designed by researchers at Tall Timbers, PERDIX and Texas Tech Quail. It uses the PerdixPro platform to design and implement surveys for bobwhites or other birds. Users can place survey grids or points to facilitate surveys and share geo-referenced locations for participants. Results can be viewed as raw estimates of density although post-processing incorporates users prediction functions of calling rate and detection functions.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Covey Call at none against Learn Bird Watching's 10. Learn Bird Watching's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Learn Bird Watching sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $24.99 per year. Covey Call asks for nothing beyond the download.
Learn Bird Watching ships an update every 9 days, Covey Call every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Learn Bird Watching | Covey Call |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.3K ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.3K — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Larkwire | Perdix Wildlife Solutions Ltd |
Bugs and requests
Learn Bird Watching
Reported bugs
3 issues- Unable to download sample content
- Repeating the same bird songs in succession
- Inconsistent progress tracking
Requested features
4 requests- Add bird song playback when selecting bird images
- Implement voice recognition for answering questions
- Include spectrograms for better visual learning
- Expand coverage to birds in other regions
Covey Call
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Learn Bird Watching
- Single Course Annual7 Days trial$24.991 Year
- All Courses Annual7 Days trial$44.991 Year
- All Courses Annual (Family)7 Days trial$64.991 Year
- Bird Songs Core West (N. Am)$9.99
- Bird Songs Core East (N. Am)$9.99
- Waterbirds Core (N. Am)$9.99
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- Bird Songs Pro East (N. Am)$24.99
- Bird Songs Pro West (N. Am)$24.99
- Waterbirds songs/calls (N. Am)$24.99
- Breeding Plumage East (N.Am.)$24.99
Covey Call
No in-app purchases
Questions
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